Central Washington University Bargaining Team September 14, 2010
CWU Bargaining Update
Washington Federation of State Employees • AFSCME Council 28 • AFL-CIO www.wfse.org
Schedule of
negotiations: Bargaining to continue past October 1 deadline
To be announced
Management presented its compensa-
Bargaining Team: tion article during our September 9-10
Laury Berner bargaining session calling for a freeze on
Pat Devlin pay increases - including scheduled step
Skip Jensen increases - from July 1, 2011 to June 30,
Brian Pinger 2013.
Chris Stebbins
Their Article 43 proposal had been expect-
Lead Negotiator:
ed because the governor and her budget
Kurt Spiegel director had been discussing state employ-
kurts@wfse.org
ee compensation in the press for weeks but
Contact the team: our negotiators have been silent on it at the
info@wfse.org bargaining table.
Please put “Message for How much money will the state actually
the CWU Bargaining save with their proposal? They can’t say
Team” in the subject line.
just yet.
Online at: The week before, the state delivered their
www.wfse.org > bargaining proposal on health care, a plan
Bargaining Center >
would more than double your share of
CWU Bargaining Team
health premiums from 12 percent to 26
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percent.
“The compensation article is an insult,”
said WFSE/AFSCME President Carol Dot-
lich. “An insult to the 40,000 heroes who
make up this union. They deserve better.
And the state ought to know better.”
On health care, the state has also gone
silent after the last bargaining session Aug.
24. There, they proposed higher premiums
or higher fees when you visit the doctor’s
office. They summarily rejected the WFSE/
AFSCME-led coalition’s creative ideas
to help pay for keeping benefits current,
including using health fund reserves and
Support Health
closing tax loopholes.
Care Bargaining.
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“To date, we have not heard back from the
state on a realistic counterproposal that
EVERYDAY.
has some basis for negotiations leading to
Contact a bargaining
team member to get a fair settlement,” said WFSE/AFSCME
your button. Executive Director Greg Devereux.
NEXT STEPS
By now it’s become clear that bargain-
ing will not wrap up prior to the October
1 deadline and will continue through the
2011 legislative session. Our next session
has not yet been scheduled, but we are
exchanging dates through December.
What does that mean to bargaining efforts?
It means that we will seek funding for
health care and other compensation related
issues with the legislature directly instead of
through the Governor’s budget proposals.
Job actions and other calls to action will be
scheduled to help WFSE bargaining teams
continue negotiations.
Watch for updates about how you can help.
WHERE WE AGREE
Negotiations did yeild some more tentative
agrements (TA’s) on the following articles:
• Art. 3 - Workplace Behavior
• Art. 8 - Overtime
• Art. 16 - Work-Related Injury or Illness
• Art. 19 - Leave Without Pay
• Art. 21 - Uniforms, Tools & Equip
• Art. 29 - Discipline
• Art. 30 - Grievance Procedure
• Art. 33 - Employee Files
• Art. 37 - Mandatory Subjects
• Art. 41 - Dues/Fees Deduction and
Status Reports
• Art. 53 - Printing of Agreement
Once it was apparent that bargaining would
continue past the October 1 deadline, a con-
current slow-down in the willingness to sign
off on article agreements was apparent.
Stay tuned. Find CWU bargaining team
news and information on WFSE.org > Bar-
gaining Center > CWU.
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CWU Bargaining Update

Central Washington University Bargaining Team
Washington Federation of State Employees
WFSE/AFSCME Council 28 • AFL-CIO